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...Libya wants to be everybody's friend. Will the peace last? Sure - about as long as most New Year's resolutions do. - By Jim Ledbetter Slow Justice BELGIUM A jury at a Liège court found six men guilty of complicity in the 1991 shooting murder of socialist Deputy Prime Minister André Cools. The court handed...
...prestige project for which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs of Paris comes not from greedy developers, but from the first leftist mayor Paris has had since the commune of 1871. A Socialist but no ideologue, Delanoë has appealed to the so-called Bobo set - the "bourgeois bohemians" - by promoting bicycles and buses, installing a sandy beach along the Seine in the summer and promising a more approachable and responsible city administration. He has become one of France's most popular Socialist office...
...Serbian Radical Party, led by former paramilitary and indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj, won 82 seats in parliamentary elections - more than any other political party. The vote - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's party was thrown out of power three years ago - also saw the ex-strongman's own Socialist Party of Serbia just meet the threshold to return to parliament. Seselj's party advocates returning Serbian troops to Kosovo, downgrading ties with the U.S. and Europe, and suing NATO for reparations for the U.S.-led bombing of Belgrade in 1999. The Radicals failed to win the majority required...
...homes at the center of the scandal; a popular TV celebrity; a comedian; and a former ambassador. Socialist lawmaker Paulo Pedroso, who was released from prison two months ago on procedural grounds, was rearrested and charged. The accused deny the charges. No Time to Lose CYPRUS Turkish Cypriots inched closer to an agreement to reunite the island when veteran leader Rauf Denktash, who's resolutely opposed reunification, handed his rival Mehmet Ali Talat, who favors a deal, the task of forming a new government after last month's elections. Talat's priority is to restart stalled peace talks with...
...1990s. The quality of roads has improved, thanks to an ambitious "golden quadrilateral" highway-building scheme that is connecting India's four largest cities. The government has also been setting up Special Economic Zones, havens that offer speedier regulatory approvals, low taxes, guaranteed power?and shelter from socialist-era labor laws that require a company with more than 100 employees to get government permission to lay off workers...